Our team of experienced professionals

Working for WMFG 
Board of Directors
  • Melchior de Muralt, De Pury Pictet Turrettini (Chairman)
  • Ernst A. Brugger, BHP (Vice-Chairman)
  • Bernd Balkenhol, Swiss Microfinance Platform (Vice-Chairman)
  • Ariane Bory de Planta
  • Tatjana Darany, Fondation pour Genève
  • Marco Ferroni, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture
  • Georges Gagnebin, Julius Baer Holding and Infidar Investment Advisory
  • Mary Ellen Iskenderian, Women´s World Banking
  • Andreas Kirchschläger, elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
  • Pierre Landolt, Sandoz Family Foundation
  • Omar Qandeel, Summit Financial Services Limited
  • Alvaro Rodriguez Arregui, Ignia
  • Jacques Toureille, Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance
  • Heinrich Wiemer, Oikocredit
Executive Committee of the Board
  • Melchior de Muralt, De Pury Pictet Turrettini (Chairman)
  • Ernst A. Brugger, BHP (Vice-Chairman)
  • Bernd Balkenhol, Swiss Microfinance Platform and Social Finance Programme, ILO (Vice-Chairman)
  • Ariane Bory de Planta
  • Tatjana Darany, Fondation pour Genève
  • Andreas Kirchschläger, elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization
  • Heinrich Wiemer, Oikocredit
  • Vidhi Tambiah, World Microfinance Forum Geneva (CEO)
Chairman Emeritus
  • Jean Zwahlen, former Ambassador and Director General of the Swiss National Bank.
Program Committee
  • Edoardo Bazoberry, Prodem
  • Dana de Kanter
  • Jean-Philippe de Schrevel, BlueOrchard Investments and Bamboo Finance
  • Urs Egger, Swisscontact
  • Grzegorz Galusek, Microfinance Centre for CEE and NIS
  • Frank Grozel, UNCTAD
  • Kathryn Imboden, CGAP
  • Roland Knorren, Accion International India
  • Ann Miles, BlueOrchard Finance USA
  • Mirjam Schöning, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
  • Damian von Stauffenberg, MicroRate
  • Roshaneh Zafar, Kashf Foundation

Management and Staff
  • Vidhi Tambiah, Chief Executive Officer
  • Pete Sparreboom, Program Director
  • Claire Favre, Senior Associate
  • Frédéric Steck, Senior Associate Intern
  • Nathalie de Meyeres, Senior Associate Intern
  • Léonard Golay, Intern

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